[Tips] How to Remove background of an image using Powerpoint

Visual content is very much important for a marketer. Be it an advertise, or social media post, it’s been proven that visual content are lot more effective than plain text. Hence we need to be creative and develop better visual content every day. Being a marketer, time is the essence. You cannot spend hours on developing a simple visual content, neither could you depend on your design staff to work on your idea and give you immediate result.  

Now, Unwanted background on an image has always been a problem. There are lot of fancy tricks with Photoshop to remove background of images , but not all of us has Photoshop. Luckily, if you are using Powerpoint 2010 or above, this could be done easily on Powerpoint. Since powerpoint comes with the Microsoft office package, I am pretty sure you already have it installed on your system. 

 

Insert the image into PowerPoint

Select your image, Click ‘Format’

Towards the left, select ‘Remove Background’. It will automatically try to remove the background ... but it probably won't get it right.

From the options, Click on areas to add or remove it from the final cropped image. Meanwhile check your output image in the side bar.

From the options, Click on areas to add or remove it from the final cropped image. Meanwhile check your output image in the side bar.

and Ta da! your image is ready. Now you can overlay another image or text on it, Use it on your blog or website or make a creative facebook post on it.